JEDDAH — Google users across the Middle East on Sunday woke up to a Doodle in celebration of what would have been Saudi musician and composer Talal Maddah's 78th birthday.

With a career that spanned almost 50 years, Maddah was known as the “golden throat” and had composed more than a thousand songs.

He died of a heart attack during a live TV performance on Aug. 11, 2000, a few days after his 60th birthday.

Every year on August 11, many of his fans remember him, with a song being shared last year of him singing in English, with the lyrics:

Please Kiss Me Oh My Darling

Please Be Mine Every Night

Don't Leave Me In The Morning

Do Not Forget The Moon light

— Al-Arabiya English